I think you mean this article on “Yingzi”: http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
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That’s been on my mind a lot lately, so much that I wrote a thing about it: https://kronopath.net/blog/segmented-identity-as-necessary-f...
Plus I’d prefer something that has mobile support.
It’s not an intuitive or discoverable command.
At least, that’s the situation to the best of my knowledge.
It’s less “trickle down economics” and more “build housing for me or I will outbid you for your own apartment”.
I was in Portugal last summer, and my family had a Vodafone 3G wifi hotspot. I noticed that on every single non-https webpage, Vodafone was inserting a banner with a huge load of JS, as part of their "Vodafone Secure Net" "feature"(https://securenet.vodafone.com/). They inserted their own code on every request to make sure that they could display a banner telling you whether or not a website was "trustworthy".
I managed to figure out the complicated steps to do on their systems to turn this "feature" off, but between that and some other bad experiences I've had with them I still don't trust them in the least.
> In implementing his vision, Ford faced cultural and climactic obstacles. People in Brazil were, for instance, used to working in the early morning, then taking a break during the hottest parts of the day, and later coming back to work. This didn’t fit with Ford’s ideal nine-to-five workday. Also, back in the States, Ford had created an industrial system where workers could actually afford to buy the products they made, but in the Amazon there wasn’t that much to buy. “There was no consumer society within the Amazon so they didn’t actually need the high wages that Ford was promising,” Grandin elaborates. So “they would work a few weeks or a few months and then they would disappear and … go back into the jungle to work their plots, to produce their own food, and maybe they come back the following year, and this would drive the Ford managers mad.” Ford’s turnover-reducing strategies didn’t work in Amazon like they had in Detroit.
This is a great example of how you can't just transplant a culture and expect it to work flawlessly. Cultures evolve to fit the environment that surrounds them, and attempting to blindly copy things that worked in one environment, and assuming they'll work in another, is folly.
As a result, it’s costly for local municipal and county governments to zone for residential areas, because of the need for schools, parks, libraries, and other public services needed. If property taxes don’t balance out those needs, then zoning for commercial buildings instead ends up being far more attractive to local governments. The results: more office buildings, more jobs, but insufficient housing to support them.
Increasing property taxes is tricky because of the risk of further displacing long-term residents, or older residents, who have owned their homes for a long time. But in my view the impacts of property taxes on cost of living and the housing crisis are undeniable, and it’s unusual to me that so few people ever even _mention_ it in these discussions.
[1]: https://torontoist.com/2014/01/everything-you-ever-wanted-to...
While I agree that the practicality of these visualizations mean that you have to fight against this high-frequency "cheating", I can't help but shake the feeling that what these optimization visualizations are showing us is correct. This is what the neuron responds to, whether you like it or not. Put in another way, the problem doesn't seem to be with the visualization but with the network itself.
Has there been any research in making neural networks that are robust to adversarial examples?
That said, I've heard of, and even seen once or twice, Chinese people forgetting how to write common words like "sneeze" (喷嚏). So it does happen.
Note also that this bill also blocks geothermal energy, which I would expect should be pretty attractive as a source of energy for the home state of Yellowstone and Old Faithful.
Those "eligible resources" are defined solely as coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, and individual net metering.
The latter includes home solar or wind installations in which the owner feeds excess electricity back into the grid, and is paid a predetermined, fixed fee for the power.
But these small-scale sources of renewable energy are meant for private use. They just happen to produce extra power that can be utilized by the grid.
Utility-scale wind and solar farms are not included in the bill's list of "eligible resources," making it illegal for Wyoming utilities to use them in any way if the legislation passes.
And if you go back to the primary source[1], that is, W.S. 37-16-101(a)(viii), you can corroborate this, as "Net metering system" has restrictions such as:
7 (B) Has a generating capacity of not more
8 than:
9
10 (I) Twenty-five (25) kilowatts for a
11 residential facility;
12
13 (II) One (1) megawatt for a
14 nonresidential facility, if allowed by the electric
15 utility, but an electric utility may not disallow
16 nonresidential use equal to or less than twenty-five (25)
17 kilowatts.
2 (E) Is intended primarily to offset part or
3 all of the customer-generator's requirements for
4 electricity
If any of you reading this live in Wyoming, please bring this up with your representatives. It's deliberately interfering with the free market in order to artificially inflate the value of coal by making it illegal to sell large-scale alternative energy sources, sponsored by representatives of coal-producing counties.
I've found that that startups (especially the ones that are far along enough that they can actually afford to pay you) are not willing to put up with the (perceived) time it takes to get a generalist software developer up to speed with their particular software stack, because of the speed at which they need to move. If they need someone to develop in AngularJS, they damn well need someone who knows AngularJS deeply and can hit the ground running, because they can't afford to spend time and manpower training you.
This is compounded by the fact that many startups overestimate the time and effort it takes for a good self-driven learner to get up to speed with a particular technological system.
In contrast, bigger tech companies tend to look for people with good smarts and algorithmic chops, because they can afford to take several weeks to train you in whatever they happen to use. They can absorb that time because you're not needed as urgently, so they don't hire as narrowly.
> If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.
You can set it to something more extreme, like maxvisit=60 minaway=720, and then it'll only allow you a one-hour session every twelve hours, which in practice usually means you can only go here once per day. Doing this turns HN from a distraction to something you have to consciously choose to visit.
A better system would be something like approval voting, or condorcet, both described in the above link.